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> And if we read the associated bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322554) we can see this is described as "policy decision", and this entire section of the code isn't exploit mitigation, but rather intended to block broken third party programs from injecting their buggy and poorly written DLLs into Firefox and causing bugs that users report to Mozilla.

Indeed -- in fact, I was tech lead for an entire project dedicated to dealing with this situation (InjectEject).






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